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couldn't understand why his sister had been so pleased when they had been given to her at Christmas. He then went outside to see what the larger world was like. He was speechless at the thrill of the big golden ball in the sky, the bright yellow fruit on the lemon tree, and the daffodils, daisies and buttercups in the garden. All these things. had been an unimpressive grey before, so it was quite a fascinating experience. Of course there were some limitations too because the lovely green lawn that he was used to and the leaves on the trees had lost their accustomed color and become grey. But no matter. he had seem them for so long that his memory made them green even if his eyes didn't. Suddenly he heard his sisters car returning so he hurried back into the house and returned the pink glasses, resuming his own blue ones. Naturally he didn't tell anyone about his discovery marvelous though it was, because after all, what self respecting boy would be caught dead wearing pink glasses?

But you may be sure that whenever he found himself alone in the house on future occasions he repeated the experience. And why shouldn't he? Wasn't the whole world his as much as it was hers? He had often seen his sister wearing blue glasses when she played softball or went hiking in the mountains. Wasn't turn about fair play? Didn't the golden sun and the yellow apricots and the beautiful daffodils belong to both of them?

Alas there came a fateful day when his mother came home unexpectedly and caught him wearing pink glasses. That evening she told his father and he was fit to be tied. He pointed out to the boy that only sissy, effeminate, homosexual boys would wear pink glasses and he was damned if he was going to raise a "prevert" in his house and so on. It was decided that the boy must be mentally ill to do such a terrible and ridiculous thing and therefore therapy was indicated. They saught the services of a well respected psychiatrist and took took the boy to see him.

The therapist was familiar with all the literature and therefore he "knew" that such boys were "latently" homosexual, or that they had not resolved their oedipus complex, or that they had a "pink" fetish, or suffered from sibling rivalry and all the currently accepted explanations of such irrational behaviour. So he set about treating the boy with all the accepted therapies...he was given all sorts of

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